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'Madame Hersilie Ortgies' rose Description
Photo courtesy of Nova Liz
ARS:
Light pink Hybrid Perpetual.
Registration name: Madame Hersilie Ortgies (hybrid perpetual, Soupert & Notting 1869)
Exhibition name: Madame Hersilie Ortgies
Bloom:
White, salmon-pink shading. Medium to large, full (26-40 petals) bloom form. Blooms in flushes throughout the season.
Growing:
USDA zone 6b through 9b (default).
Patents:
Patent status unknown (to HelpMeFind).
Parentage:
If you know the parentage of this rose, or other details, please contact us.
Notes:
The attribution to Moreau & Robert as a Bourbon is an error by Shirley Hibberd, repeated by some later authors. The rose currently in gardens and commerce is mislabeled.
From "Verzeichniss der Bürger und Niedergelassenen der Stadt Zürich: im Jahr 1868" [Index of the citizens and inhabitants of the town of Zürich: in the year 1868]: Ortgies. From Bremen, 1868. [1]829 Carl Eduard, Obergärtner am botanischen Garten - Pelikanstr. 30 [Head gardener at the Botanical garden] Wife - Ester Louise Locher b. [1]835, m. [1]857...6 Children....Hersilie Mina b. [1]865....
Karl Eduard Ortgies (February 19, 1829 Bremen - 1916), German horticulturist and nurseryman, worked with Joseph paxton and Louis van Houtte before becoming in 1855 the Head Gardener of the Botanical garden in Zürich, retiring in 1893. Madame Hersilie Ortgies is possibly his mother (daughter was 3 years old in 1868).
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